How similar is the current economic crisis to the one that hit the UK and the rest of the world before 1939? There have certainly been many comparisons between our … Read the rest
Month: March 2011
In October 2010 joint US-Russian raids on Afghan drugs laboratories near the Pakistani border in which more than a tonne of heroin and opium was destroyed made it into the … Read the rest
There are, as many Labour MPs will tell you, few advantages to being in Opposition. But as I argued (along with Mark Stuart) in a chapter in Nigel Fletcher’s … Read the rest
Long gone are the days of heightened tension between NATO and Russia that followed the 2008 war in Georgia. The two former rivals have managed to put their differences … Read the rest